An NBA Player Who Pulled A Gun On A Teammate And 13 Other Wild Events In Sports History

1. Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas and teammate Javaris Crittenton pulled guns on each other in the locker room after a gambling dispute — and the story only gets wilder from there. First, let's cover how they ended up pointing guns at each other as teammates fled the room in the first place.

A few days earlier, while on a team flight, Arenas played cards with Crittenton and beat him hand after hand. This led to Arenas talking some serious trash, including joking about burning Crittenton alive. A miffed Crittenton threatened to shoot Arenas, who, in a casebook example of poor decision making, brought two unloaded guns to the locker room to call Crittenton's bluff and see if he'd do it.

But Crittenton wasn't bluffing, and upon seeing Arenas with his unloaded guns, pulled out a LOADED gun and pointed it at Arenas. Thankfully, tempers cooled and no one got shot. Melissa Majchrzak / NBAE via Getty Images The NBA fined and suspended Arenas and Crittenton for the rest of the season.

The players also pleaded guilty to gun charges (Crittenton received one year's probation; Arenas received two years probation and 30 days in a hakfway house). The 22-year-old Crittenton never played in the NBA again, and later served nearly a decade in jail for shooting a woman to death. Finally, making the whole story more ironic, is the fact that the Wizards had only changed their name a few years earlier from...